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OCR: JAMES CLERK MAXWELL (1831 79 ORN IN EDINBURGH, Scotland, the physicist James Clerk Maxwell has been described as the most brilliant scien tist of the 1800s. His best -known work established link between and light This research later helped the German physicist Heinrich Hertz (1857 94 build the first radio- -wave transmitter. During his career Maxwell produced new theories on many scientific problems of the day: the physical properties of gases; the nature ofthe planet Saturn rings; how humans perceive colors; and demonstration ofcolor photography. However, the complexity ofhis theories meant that he received little public recognition. ALSO STORY MAXWELI theorie